Here's a pretty cool article about the women in Obama's staff and how they worked together to make sure that their voices were heard in rooms full of men.
As a sneak peak: Female staffers adopted a meeting strategy they called “amplification”: When a woman made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its author. This forced the men in the room to recognize the contribution — and denied them the chance to claim the idea as their own.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/09/heres-how-obamas-female-staffers-made-their-voices-heard.html
This article is awesome. This also makes sense because there are all these stories published about how women are perceived to talk much more in meetings than men do which is why they would want to attribute the idea to somebody to keep constantly asserting that their ideas are ones to be taken seriously.
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